Senior Computer Vision Engineer

Company overview

Lima is a fast growing startup based in Kenya empowering farmers with data driven decisions.

As a company, Lima is championing a distributed team culture with a focus on individual and collective growth. We pride ourselves in our inclusive, diverse and a safe environment where exceptional talent can work, learn and grow.

Job description

Lima is looking for a Senior Computer Vision Engineer to design and implement CV-based ML solutions in agriculture. If you are passionate about data science and computer vision, converting images into valuable data, then you're in the right place.

80% Your key responsibilities:

• Design or help design data pipelines to automate dataset creation and management
• Design and implementML solutions and models to obtain target metrics from images.
• Analyze and predict requirements for training of ML models
• Image processing, classification and instance segmentation
• Design and implement adaptive neural networks based on input data
• Build, test, validate predictive models

20% Up to you!

• Set and grow toward your ideal career goals
• What are you passionate about? What do you want to learn, and where else would you like to contribute?

Requirements

What we are looking for:

• Professional written and verbal fluency in English
• Experience working with Python, Tensorflow, Keras and OpenCV
• Experience creating new or adapting existing models using Tensorflow
• Professional experience building adaptive CNNs
• Knowledge of AWS Machine Learning and computing resources
• Deep and proven knowledge of image processing, image classification and image segmentation
• Experience with deploying prediction models and stress testing
• Good knowledge and background theory of statistics and data science

Who you are:

• You are self-motivated and eager to learn. You take initiative, are naturally curious, and can learn new things quickly while continuing to deliver value on the job.
• You are a shipper. You respect deadlines, accomplish your work autonomously, and have experience setting a positive example for self-management to your team members.
• You have the ability to thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter expert, and enjoy sharing knowledge and helping others grow.

It would be great if you also have:

• B.Sc or M.Sc in engineering, CS, software engineering, applied mathematics, data science or similar disciplines
• 2+ years Experience working with international, diversified and distributed teams.